River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1887-10-13
NORrHMEsTERN NEWS.

Under the head of General Order
No. l, Comnander-in- Chief Rea, G. A. r.,
has designated Minneapolis as department
headquarters and also made the following
( appointments: Adjutant-General-D
] Fish. Minneapolis. General
| John Taylor, 2lS Walnut street, Pbiladel-
! phia. Judge Advocate General-Wh eelock
q. NeaZey, Rutland, VT Judge Fish is
popular q. A. X. man, and Commander of
] Rawlins post There is comfortable
salary attached to his office. Mr.. Taylor
| has long been quartermaster general and
his appointment was a matter of course
Judge Veazey is "A well-known Vermont
/ lawyer, who has been on the supreme
bench
At Bismarck, Oak. the Jury in the
case of Henry Baker, charged with poison
| ing Peter Olson, returned a verdict of not
guilty, after being out fifty hours. Counsel
\ for the defendant was William Erwin of St
/ Paul and Dennis Hannafin of Bismarck.
| This was the second trial of Baker, the jury
| in the first having disagreed. The
/ evidence was all rcumstantial In the
| United States court the jury in the cese of
Sergeant Gunther charged with Mayhem,
| found the defendant guilty. Gunther was
a sergeant at Fort \ ates and IN attempting
1 To place w. Is. kendle in the guard houss
used unnecessary violence and kicked HE
I eye out,
The manager of Dennis Ryan's wheat
farm In Kittson county, Mimi, said at ST.
Paul, son Mr.. Ryan's farm we had $500
acres in wheat and it averages over twenty
| five bushels to the acre, making in all about
1 22S,000 bushels. The price is 60 cents,
great diff, renee from the Sl.25 we got in the
/ years gone by. But high prices for wheat
1 is a thing of the past We must raise wheat
/ for GO cents or less from now on. j believe
| the farmers can do 1t now and make
money He also said there was great
difficulty in getting cars for shipping wheat.
The commissions of the future trus-
| tees of the Dakota asylum for the insane
at Yankton, which are signed by Gov.
Church and Secretary Mccormack and
adorned with the great seal of the territory
bear the names of NJ. Gross of YanktOn,
who succeeds Trustee Williams; Milo I.
| Wooley of Yankton, who succeeds William
NJ Powers and Robert Cox of Nankton,
gentlemen, with Trustees Lewis and Brown
of the old board, will compose the future
board of trustees for the asylum.
A book agent from Chicago, named
w. L. Smith tried to commit suicide at the
Washington house, Fargo, Oak. He paid
man % cents to hang him. They went to
The 81 IN. found a rope, and when about
ready u commit the deed, his assistant re-
turned IN the bar for a drink and did not
return. Smith then went to his room,
secured dose of morphine and placed it
in sone whisky. Before he could drink it
this proprietor of the hotel broke into his
re IN and took it away Smith was
arrested.
A special from Sioux City, Iowa,
says: An attempt was made to wreck the
Yankton passenger train on the Milwaukee
q st. Paul road, on a curve mile this side
of Ella Point. by fastening an oak tie on
the track The engineer discovered the
obstruction too late 70 stop, but luckily the
train was not derailed. Over 500 eXcurs-
ionists were crowded into the coaches, and
had the designs of the Williams been accom-
plished the loss of life would have been
frightful.
Commander-in-chief G. A r., Judge
John p. Rea, upon his return home to Min
neapolis was given most handsome recep- |
ton. a procession Of 1900 largely q. A. r. /
men, escortiur him TO the Exposition build |
ing. where Mayor Ames led in the speech |
making followed by Judge Rea, Col. Hicks, |
Mai. Henderson, Judge Fish and DR.. /
Murphy, Mai. Drake and Col J. II. David 1
son OF st Paul IL was very happy and /
altogether eloquent occasion.
At Green Bay, Wis, the wife of !
" enzel Schwartz gave herself up 10 the /
poll e. saying she had killed her husband. /
She had struck Schwartz blow on top of I
the head with an ak, making bad wound. /
The result * doubtful. Schwartz has /
abused his wife for some time, and 1t Is 1
claimed that her mind has become I'M /
balanced. His wife claims that he tried 70 4
poison her An application has been made 1
Tor her commitment 70 an asylum.
At Council Bluffs, Iowa, the first